You may have read in my earlier posts that I do not often recommend supplements, especially when they promise some type of exercise related benefit like “muscle preservation.” However, I do recommend that people take multivitamins. Although it’s best to get all your nutrients in food form, because we absorb [...]
Last week we talked about sleep – the importance of it and how we all need to put it on our to-do list. But what if you feel like you just can’t fall asleep when you want to? I personally have struggled with this myself and so has my firefighter [...]
It’s the new year and almost everybody wants to lose a pound or two. Maybe you’ve got a lot to lose and want to not feel so worn out all the time from packing around extra weight and being out of shape. Maybe you want to lose fat, gain muscle [...]
Over the past few months I’ve been counting down what I believe to be the top 10 myths about fitness and nutrition – in order, from least to most pertinent. So today I reveal to you the biggest, baddest myth that is so engrained in our culture I don’t know [...]
Recently I saw an advertisement for a supplement called “ManCore Muscle Preserve.” It occurred to me that while many people believe it’s imperative to take supplements to gain muscle (more on that next week in my #1 myth about fitness and nutrition), clearly the supplement industry also has people convinced [...]